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STEVE Waugh has lifted the lid on his most famous sledging
incident - his confrontation with West Indian paceman Curtly
Ambrose in 1995.

The episode in Trinidad has gone down as a turning point in a
series that began Australia's era of modern domination. The diluted
version of what Waugh said to Ambrose would have it that he
incensed Ambrose by saying: "Just you bowl."

The truth is out in Waugh's autobiography, and the real words
spoken were something less clever, and less clean. Ambrose
repeatedly stared Waugh down during a searing spell, and Waugh, who
sized up the towering quick, said: "What the f--- are you looking
at?"

Ambrose was stunned because, as Waugh says, "no one had ever
been stupid enough" to speak to him like that. Ambrose replied,
"Don't cuss me, man", before Waugh's response, which had nothing to
do with bowling.

"Unfortunately, nothing inventive or witty came to mind, rather
another piece of personal abuse: 'Why don't you go and get f--ed.'
"